A Guide-book to the Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning

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Houghton, Mifflin, 1891 - 450 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 242 - I held my tongue, and spake nothing : I kept silence, yea, even from good words; but it was pain and grief to me.
Sayfa 436 - Why?" Because all I haply can and do, All that I am now, all I hope to be, — Whence comes it save from fortune setting free Body and soul the purpose to pursue, God traced for both? If fetters, not a few, Of prejudice, convention, fall from me, These shall I bid men — each in his degree Also God-guided — bear, and gayly, too?
Sayfa 93 - The cheerful holly, pensive yew, And holy thorn, their trim renew; The squirrel hoards his nuts: All creatures batten o'er their stores, And careful nature all her doors For Adoration shuts.
Sayfa 87 - His muse, bright angel of his verse. Gives balm for all the thorns that pierce, For all the pangs that rage; Blest light, still gaining on the gloom, The more than Michal of his bloom, The Abishag of his age.
Sayfa 432 - He was made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1882, and two years later was knighted'.
Sayfa 277 - PARLEYINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE OF IMPORTANCE IN THEIR DAY: TO WIT : BERNARD DE MANDEVILLE, DANIEL BARTOLI, CHRISTOPHER SMART, GEORGE BUBB DODINGTON. FRANCIS FURINI, GERARD DE LAIRESSE, AND CHARLES AVISON. INTRODUCED BY A DIALOGUE BETWEEN APOLLO AND THE FATES; CONCLUDED BY ANOTHER BETWEEN JOHN FUST AND HIS FRIENDS.
Sayfa 87 - Abishag of his age. He sang of God — the mighty source Of all things — the stupendous force On which all strength depends ; From whose right arm, beneath whose eyes, All period, power, and enterprise Commences, reigns, and ends.
Sayfa 405 - I HAD for some time been engaged in a Poem of a very different nature, when induced to make the present attempt; and am not without apprehension that my eagerness to freshen a jaded mind by diverting it to the healthy natures of a grand epoch...
Sayfa 49 - I only meant by that title to indicate an endeavour towards something like an alternation, or mixture, of music with discoursing, sound with sense, poetry with thought ; which looks too ambitious, thus expressed, so the symbol was preferred.
Sayfa 87 - Angels — their ministry and meed, Which to and fro with blessings speed, Or with their citterns wait ; Where Michael, with his millions, bows, Where dwells the seraph and his spouse, The cherub and her mate.

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